Beer: Ratings & Reviews

Reviews by foles:

330ml bottle, no freshness date. Not much going on in the nose, golden colour with decent creamy head. Taste is big Nelson Sauvin (I think), with some harshness in the background. Heavy harsh bitterness, making it not as smooth as an easy drinking pale should be. Reasonable beer, but could be a bit cleaner and more defined in flavour. I think its suffering from autolysis, not sure how the bottle has been kept.

Smells very fruity and ripe; fairly bitter as well. Huge lychee juiciness with a prickly grapefruit acid at the back. Very pleasant; tangy and refreshing with a nice edge.

Taste is a little bit subdued, sadly. Dry and biscuity, with an early descent into dry yeastiness. Notes of maris otter with very mild citric hop bitterness on the back. Could use a bit more hop flavour earlier, ends up tasting a bit savoury and bland. Very slammable, it just doesn't fill me up with loved-up tingles.

Very drinkable, but it smells a huge amount better than it tastes. Not that it tastes bad, it just sets you up high and then disappoints you a bit. It's like when your girlfriend promises you a threesome and instead just has sex with you herself.

Pours a really very light golden colour, with solid hazing. Carbonation is extremely fine, and forms a head upwards in minute, fine layers of film. Body looks light but very fine. Did I mention, fine? Nice, intricate lacing. It's a very sophisticated looking brew.

Nose is crisp and green, with a herbal hop bit which is just as refreshing as a citrus bomb, but pleasantly different. Smells to me like heavy use of sharp Kiwi hops. Some pine, some pepper, some guava and passionfruit rounds out the other flavours. It's very pleasant stuff.

Taste is very clean and very crisp: you could say mild, but that's probably doing a disservice to a beer designed to be drinkable and refreshing. Indeed, it has a crisp backbone of hops, which leaves a tingle of resin along the centre of the palate, but otherwise, it's all dry and light, leaving it exceptionally quaffable.

Mouthfeel is exceptionally fine (oh, there's that word again), with a tight, mild frothy carbonation which reminds me of the creamy feel achieved by Westvleteren Blonde.